Erectile Dysfunction & Metabolic Health

When you're thinking about people with ED, see all that blue pill does is fix that end problem, right? It fixes that, let's just make sure we get the erection and we maintain it. But there's reasons why we get there. We get there because of stress and its impact on that very, very sensitive neurovascular problem, that neurovascular, and it's not a problem, that neurovascular symphony that has to occur for you to have, you know, your erection and ejaculation. So metabolic syndrome is- that's pre-diabetes. Pre-diabetes, which includes, you know, to make that diagnosis, you have to have obesity, dyslipidemia, which is just abnormal cholesterol, triglycerides, HDLs, you have to have hypertension. And one of the things is insulin resistance. And so insulin resistance is connected to endothelial dysfunction. When those endothelial cells aren't working, then the NO, the nitrous oxide, is not going to have impact and you're not going to be able to start that erection. So, what do you treat? You can give the person Viagra, but since metabolic syndrome has so many of their impacts on their overall health and their health span and lifespan, it'd be better to fix that.